KANSAS Cry 
REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 
SCIENCE, MECHANIC ARTS AND LITERATURE. 
WON Ne OCTOBER, 188o. NO. 6. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOC TiS: 
THE AMERICAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. 
The twenty-ninth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science began in Boston, August 25. The meeting was called to order by the 
retiring President, Prof. George F. Barker, of Philadelphia, who immediately 
resigned the chair to the President-elect, the Hon. Lewis H. Morgan, of Roches- 
ter. President Rogers, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered 
an introductory address, which was followed by addresses of welcome by Mayor 
Prince and Governor Long. 
The secretary reported the deaths for the past year as follows: George W. 
Abbe, New York; E. B. Andrews, Lancaster, Ohio; Homer C. Blake, New 
York; Caleb Cooke, Salem, Mass.; Benjamin F. Mudge, Manhattan, Kansas; 
Thomas Nicholson, New Orleans; Louis Francis de Pourtelas, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
A committee was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Gen. Albert 
J. Myer, and another to send by cable the cordial greetings of the Association to 
the British Association at Swansea, on the occaaion of its fiftieth meeting. 
The general session was then adjourned, and the various sections and sub- 
sections organized. In the afternoon, Section A was addressed by Prof. Asaph 
Hail, of Washington, who reviewed the recent advances in the science of astron- 
omy, and the services rendered by men who, like Fraunhofer, have aided the 
work by optical and mechanical skill. 
In the sub-section of chemistry, Prof. John M. Ordway reviewed the recent 
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